Dumping-wagon



w. H. LONG.

DUMPING WAGON.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

Patented Dec. 31, 1889..

TIE a um I! nmurrwmf IIHIIH II I) WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVIL LIAM H. LONG, OF TROY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THEODORE D.

ROBINSON, OF BRUNSWICK, NEW YORK.

DUMPlNG-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,338, dated December31, 1889.

Application filed April 5 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. LONG, of the city of Troy, county ofRensselaer, and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Dumping-Wagons, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements upon that class of wagon-boxes thatare made-with hinged bottoms that are adapted to be dropped down ontheir hinged connections .to empty their contents; and the object andpurpose of my invention are the better adaptation and construction ofthis class of wagon-boxes for the uses for which they are designed.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there are twoplates of drawings containing five figures illustrating my invention,with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all ofthem. 7

Of the illustrations, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wagon-boxcontaining my invention. Fig. 2 is a front end elevation of the same.Fig. 3 is a cross-section. Fig. 4 is a top view of the wagon-box. Fig.75 is a View of the under side of the wagon-box.

The several parts of the apparatus thus illustrated are designated byletter reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letters S designate the sides of the wagon-box, and these arepreferably made about vertical.

The letters E designate the ends of the wagon-box, which are preferablymade to slope inwardly as extended downwardly.

The letters D D designate two dump-doors running from front to rear ofthe box, and which, when up and in position, form the bottom of the box.These doorsare each mounted on and supported .by a bar B, attached tothe Serial No; 806,080.

(No model.)

and so that the bulkof the load sustained on each of them will begreater at their outer edges to facilitate their dumping. Each of thesebars B at its front end, where outside of its journals thereat, isprovided with a lever-arm A, and so arranged that when the dumping-doorsare down the driver or person operating the wagon, by pressing his feeton the. levers A and putting his weight thereon, can raise them so thatthe doors will be turned up to again close the bottom of the box.

To hold the doors D D in position, so as to retain the load, alocking-rod is used,which is indicated at R, and it is extendedrearwardly along the sides of the box, so as to be moved back and forthin. the loop-form slides S, arranged in the lower ends of the bars bwhich are downwardly projected from the sides of the wagon-box. Theserods are adapted to be moved rearwardly to lock and frontwardly tounlock the doors, (when the latter are turned up,) by means of thehand-leversL L, each of which is pivoted at p to the wagonbox side, andat its lower end 6 each ofsaid levers is divided, so as to straddle oneof the rods R and be connected thereat pivotally at p Theletters Edesignate staple-eyes that are downwardly projected from the bottom ofthe wagon-box at each of its side edges, and O offset bars or boltsarranged on the rod B, so as to project therefrom by an offset bend andthen extend rearwardly from the bend to be parallel with the body partof the rod R, and so that when the latter is moved rearwardly by thelever L these offset bars or bolts 0, as

moving with the rods R, will pass through each two of the staple-eyes Earranged on the bottom of the box side edge.

The letters a designate staple-eyes that are same in place so that theywill sustain the load.

WVhen the wagon is loaded anditis desired to dump the contents, thelever L is pulled rearwardly, which draws the offset bars 0 from out thestaple-eyes E of the wagon-box and the intermediate staple-eyes e of thedoor. hen this has been done, the greater weight of the load held by thedoors on their outer edges causes them to drop or turn down on. theirjournals to discharge the load. To raise the doors, the driver presseson the footlevers A, which causes the doors to turn back to place, andby pushing out the upper end of the lever L the doors are looked, as hasbeen before described. As thus made and arranged, the wagon may beunloaded without stopping the team that draws it and put in a conditionto be loaded without having the driver leave his seat.

I am aware that a clump-wagon provided with bottom doors that werehinged to the wagon-reaches outside of their longitudinal center is anold and well-known construction. This older method of constructing adump-wagon necessitated setting the wagon back from the head-block onthe reaches to allow the front wheels the necessary space in turning thewagon. .By my improvement the doors are hinged to the head-block andrear axle-block, and independently of the reach, and the doors of mywagon are hung with their journals inside of their longitudinal centerof the doors, instead of outside thereof, as in the olderconstruct-ions, which improvement allows a wagon-box of greater capacityto be used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a wagon-box 0011- structed with the sides S andends E, and having the head-block K and rear axleblock H, and providedwith doors D D, journaled onto the said head-block and rear axle-block,

of staple-eyes e downwardly projected from a box having vertical sideswith staple-eyes downwardly projected therefrom and having I inwardlyand downwardly tapering ends, and ahead-block and hind axle-block, twodumpdoors,which at their ends are j on rnaled into the head-block andrear axle-block inside of their longitudinal center, a foot-lever on thefront end of each of said journals where extended beyond their bearings,with staple-eyes downwardly projectetlfrom the outer edges of said doorsto be in alignment with the staple-eyes on the bottom of the box-sides,a rod having slideways at each side of the box and constructed with apivoted lever at its front end, said rod having offset bars or boltsadapted to pass through the staple-eyes on the box-sides, and thestaple-eyes on the bottom outer edge of the dump-doors, substantially inthe manner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 9th day of March, 1889, and in thepresence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

WILLIAM H. LONG.

Vitnesses:

N. E. HAGAN, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL.

